Hansa
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First of all, let's hope Boris will turn out fine. There's a good chance he's been admitted way earlier than other patients, just to make absolutely sure of his recovery.
Had way too much time on my hands last night, and compiled a little statistic from the numbers at Worldometers. This one looks at the number of tests needed to find a positive case in each country, and highlights a few countries flying below the radar, where there might be a significant percentage of undiscovered cases, and where the testing capabilites might be way lower than required to keep things under control. I've just included countries with more than 1.000 confirmed cases. China and Saudi Arabia have incomplete data and are not included.
France: 2.4
Algeria: 2.5
Dominican Republic: 2.6
Spain: 2.7
Iran: 3.2
Ecuador: 3.4
Belgium: 3.7
Serbia: 3.8
UK: 4.1
Ukraine: 4.2
Indonesia: 4.3
Netherlands: 4.4
Morocco: 4.7
Brazil: 4.9
Panama: 5.1
USA: 5.2 (New York 2.5, New Jersey 2.2, Michigan 2.6, Louisiana 4.6, California 8.0)
Italy 5.4
Sweden: 5.4 (Probably closer to 8 or thereabouts, but their number of performed tests hasn't been updated for a while)
Argentina: 5.8
Ireland: 6.0
Philippines: 6.0
Turkey: 6.7
Switzerland: 7.5
Portugal: 7.8
Mexico: 8.3
Luxembourg: 8.4
Peru: 8.5
Austria: 9.0
Germany 9.2
Croatia: 9.2
>10: Romania, Canada, South Korea, Israel, Norway, Australia, Russia, Czechia, Chile, Denmark, Poland, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Japan, Thailand, Finland, United Arab Emirates, Greece, South Africa, Qatar, Iceland, Colombia, Singapore, Egypt, Estonia, New Zealand
Had way too much time on my hands last night, and compiled a little statistic from the numbers at Worldometers. This one looks at the number of tests needed to find a positive case in each country, and highlights a few countries flying below the radar, where there might be a significant percentage of undiscovered cases, and where the testing capabilites might be way lower than required to keep things under control. I've just included countries with more than 1.000 confirmed cases. China and Saudi Arabia have incomplete data and are not included.
France: 2.4
Algeria: 2.5
Dominican Republic: 2.6
Spain: 2.7
Iran: 3.2
Ecuador: 3.4
Belgium: 3.7
Serbia: 3.8
UK: 4.1
Ukraine: 4.2
Indonesia: 4.3
Netherlands: 4.4
Morocco: 4.7
Brazil: 4.9
Panama: 5.1
USA: 5.2 (New York 2.5, New Jersey 2.2, Michigan 2.6, Louisiana 4.6, California 8.0)
Italy 5.4
Sweden: 5.4 (Probably closer to 8 or thereabouts, but their number of performed tests hasn't been updated for a while)
Argentina: 5.8
Ireland: 6.0
Philippines: 6.0
Turkey: 6.7
Switzerland: 7.5
Portugal: 7.8
Mexico: 8.3
Luxembourg: 8.4
Peru: 8.5
Austria: 9.0
Germany 9.2
Croatia: 9.2
>10: Romania, Canada, South Korea, Israel, Norway, Australia, Russia, Czechia, Chile, Denmark, Poland, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Japan, Thailand, Finland, United Arab Emirates, Greece, South Africa, Qatar, Iceland, Colombia, Singapore, Egypt, Estonia, New Zealand